Ivy League Teaching Assistant Says She Calls On Black Women First, White Men Last

An Ivy League teaching assistant tweeted Monday that she calls on black female students first and white male students last.

“I will always call on my black women students first. Other POC [people of color] get second tier priority. WW [White women] come next. And, if I have to, white men,” University of Pennsylvania teaching assistant Stephanie McKellop said in a tweet from an account linked to her name that has now been protected.

McKellop said that an “amazing” professor taught her that policy during her undergraduate career.

“In normal life, who has the easiest time speaking, most opportunities? Flip it,” she said in another tweet.

“The classroom is the place YOU get to control social setting,” the TA continued. “Prioritize and encourage voices who are talked over most often.”

McKellop is a marriage and family historian “with interests intersecting in areas of gender, sexuality, the body, and race.”

A graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania said administrators pulled them from the classroom over the use of a teaching technique, according to a set of messages on Twitter.

Stephanie McKellop, who uses they/them pronouns, wrote in a series of posts that are set to private that the university was going to condemn McKellop for using progressive stacking, a method aimed at offering marginalized students a greater chance at speaking in the classroom. McKellop, who is in the department of history, accused the university of caving in to the pressure of outside agitators.

“Hi Friends, the University of Pennsylvania is issuing a press release condemning me and my teaching practices. It comes out tomorrow,” McKellop wrote in one of the messages. “Because this involves calling on Black students more readily than white men, the white nationalists and Nazis were very upset.”

Professor Jacobson wrote about “progressive stacking” several years ago in a post about the practice in the Occupy Wall Street Protests:

The most interesting thing about the progressive stack is not that it is racist or sexist, or that it is a caricature of racial and feminist critical thinking.

What is most interesting is that the progressive stack is an acknowledgement that women and “people of color” at the protests are not able to stand up on their own to the dominant progressive white males in their midst. Only through the distinctly non-anarchist structure of a progressive stack are the dominant progressive white males held in check.

Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Ed reports that McKellop may be dropped by her program:

A Pedagogy Questioned

Anyone who’s ever taught a class knows some students say more than others. And most professors eventually develop some way of encouraging quieter students to contribute. In one more formal discussion-management technique, called progressive stacking, professors call on students who may be — for a variety of reasons — less likely to have their say. While every student is different, the reasons typically reflect the implicit biases observed outside the classroom, such as those related to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability status. So, according to progressive stacking, a professor would call on a black or Latina woman before a white man, for example.

There’s the rub, at least in one class at the University of Pennsylvania. Stephanie McKellop, a graduate teaching assistant in history there, says she is under attack by fringe-right groups for using progressive stacking in her classes and then tweeting about it. Worse, she says, the university is cowing to such groups instead of supporting her. She’s claimed on social media that her classes were canceled this week and she may be asked to leave her program.

So she sees students for nothing but their race, but it’s “fringe right” groups who are to blame for her woes. She’s the victim here, not her students. That’s the left for you.

That was my first thought, also – what a cute young woman. Pixie-ish, gamine. My daughter has a similar style. Unfortunately, my daughter also has some of the same political leanings as this young woman. Sigh.

It’s the same thing as capitalizing Deaf. It’s a reference to the identity rather than the physical trait. “White” isn’t an identity, except when referring to White supremacists, so it doesn’t need to be capitalized.

This whole promotion of identity politics is, of course, dangerous nonsense, but that’s what it is you’re seeing.

A bit on the old side to be a graduate assistant. Her whole description of herself on her twitter feed is “look at me, I’m too cool and clever for school”.
I can only imagine how here thesis will read.
Ugh. Where do universities find these people?

Whatever happened to non-discrimination? Glad UPenn fired her. Otherwise it would seem to me that white men and even white women and people of color other than black would have excellent grounds to sue.

It is maddening that taxpayers bear the burden and that a sucubus like her can subsist on the succor of the subsidized student loan and Pell Grant programs (and to some extent the Fulbright program, that provides grants and other aid to foreign students to attend US schools). There is no reason for such an academic program to exist except as a “make work” project and to cash in on the flood of taxpayer provided funds before someone else does.

Academic institutions are a lot like the Cellfare/Obama phone providers. The Cellfare providers see that big fund of money created by taxing our programs and know that if they do not pass out millions of phones to get users on their network consuming time and allowing the provider to milk the fund, then the other guy will. It’s the modern day open access problem first described as the “Tragedy Of The Commons.”

This kind of ‘useful idiocy’ is mere corruption: the college professors themselves are completely corrupt: ridiculously overpaid, little work, no responsibility – other than the tow the leftist party line so they get hired and promoted.

This is the same as the public school system, where corrupt, mind-blowingly overpaid administrators hired by democrat hacks in turn hire incompetent, but loyal hacks to corrupt students’ minds.

Talk about ‘vast right wing’ conspiracies? Funny, but anything hillary clinton accuses the right of, she and the left have been guilty of for years.

The left always telegraphs its guilt: by accusing our side of exactly what they are secretly doing.

They also know they’ve got protection from the crying boehners and the warped mccains.

Those of us working in real areas of study would appreciate it if you would delineate these fake majors and degrees from us. We don’t get overpaid and have lots to do. We are often run ragged by corrupt administrators, some of which you have seen on display on this very site.

It’s University of Penn, not Penn State. A super-rich Ivy league enclave nestled right on the edge of a working class black neighborhood that provides all of the secretaries, janitors, and food service workers for Lil’ Miss Progressive on campus while she virtue signals her way through a free PhD in useless studies.

I would challenge this super-woke white Penn grad student to start walking due west from campus at midnight right through the heart of the real West Philadelphia and file a complete report if and when she makes it back to her cushy little University City abode alive.